chocolate - tejate, chocolate de agua, champurrado, chocolate atole
ENDULZANTES (sweeteners)
miel (honey), miel de maguey
SEMILLAS (seeds)
semilla de calabaza o pepitas (squash), cacahuate (peanut), chia, huaje, girasol
NUEZ (nuts)
cacahuate, pecan (nogal), walnut (nuez de castilla), nuez de la india
ESPECIAS y HIERBAS (spices and herbs) vanilla, epazote, hoja santa (rootbeer plant), hoja de aguacate (avocado leaf), achiote, perejil (parsley), cilantro de monte, cilantro habanero, hierba de conejo (indian paintbrush), chepil, hierba de borracho o poleo
CARNES (meats)
conejo or liebre (rabbit), guajalote or pavo (turkey), huevos de guajalote (turkey eggs), pescado (fish), rana (frog), camarones (shrimp), venado (deer), iguana, pato (duck), pastel de higado, faisan, tepesquintle, chachalaca
A Few Words about Indigenous and Mostly Indigenous Foods
The foods in this guide are more than 500 years old ... and served fresh daily if you know where to look!
Many indigenous dishes incorporate introduced foods, including cheese and meats such as beef, chicken and pork. Other changes include the process of distillation which took the native agave and made this into mezcal and tequila.
Mexican salsas were produced using the mortar and pestle-like molcajete
Indigenous Food Menu (Carta de Comida Indígena)
Oaxaca, México
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What did the indigenous peoples of Mexico eat before the arrival of the Spanish? We present the following menu:
¿Que comieron los antepasados? Presentamos las comidas milinarias de Mexico.
Indigenous Food Menu (Carta de Comida Indígena)
CEREAL
maíz (corn) - ceguesa, tejate, tamales, tortillas, atole, chochoyotes, totopos, pinole, elotes, esquites, empanadas, memelas, tetelas, tlayudas
amaranto (amaranth)
VERDURAS (vegetables)
frijol (bean), frijolin (scarlet runner), calabaza (squash), flor de calabaza (squash flower), flor de maguey, tepejilote, nopal blanco, nopal delgado, aguacate (avocado), camotes (sweet potato), papas (potatoes), guaje, hongos (mushrooms), chayote, ejote (green bean), calabacita (zuccini), chilacayota, camote
greens - quelites (lambs quarter) - chepil, chepiche, pepiche, guias (squash vines), quintoniles (Amaranthus hybridus or amaranth greens) , huauzontle, papalo-quelite, verdolaga (purslane), romerito, huele de noche
chiles - de agua, guajillo, tabiche (de Ejutla)
agave - pulque, aguamiel, miel de maguey
cactacea (cactus) - xoconostle, biznaga, pitaya (tuna), nopal (prickly pear)
FRUTAS (fruit)
capulines (cherries), tuna (prickly pear cactus fruit), tejocote, zapote negro, zapote chico, sauco (elderberry), jinicuil, jicama, guyaba, papaya, ciruelo (plum), anona, granadilla, nanche, piña (pineapple), aguacate (avocado), guajiloteguajiniquil, quajiniquil or cuajiniquil
tomate, miltomate (green husked tomato)
chocolate - tejate, chocolate de agua, champurrado, chocolate atole
ENDULZANTES (sweeteners)
miel (honey), miel de maguey
SEMILLAS (seeds)
semilla de calabaza o pepitas (squash), cacahuate (peanut), chia, huaje, girasol
NUEZ (nuts)
cacahuate, pecan (nogal), walnut (nuez de castilla), nuez de la india
ESPECIAS y HIERBAS (spices and herbs)
vanilla, epazote, hoja santa (rootbeer plant), hoja de aguacate (avocado leaf), achiote, perejil (parsley), cilantro de monte, cilantro habanero, hierba de conejo (indian paintbrush), chepil, hierba de borracho o poleo
CARNES (meats)
conejo or liebre (rabbit), guajalote or pavo (turkey), huevos de guajalote (turkey eggs), pescado (fish), rana (frog), camarones (shrimp), venado (deer), iguana, pato (duck), pastel de higado, faisan, tepesquintle, chachalaca
INSECTOS (bugs)
chicatanas, chapulines (grasshoppers), gusano de maguey, chumiles, cuiles, hormigas (ants), escamoles
CALDOS (soups and stews)
cazuela de guajalote (turkey stew), caldo de piedra (stone soup)
SALSAS (sauces)
salsas de tomate y chile, pipian
OTROS PRODUCTS (other products)
algodon, tobaco, jojoba, estropajo
A Few Words about Indigenous and Mostly Indigenous Foods
The foods in this guide are more than 500 years old ... and served fresh daily if you know where to look!
Many indigenous dishes incorporate introduced foods, including cheese and meats such as beef, chicken and pork. Other changes include the process of distillation which took the native agave and made this into mezcal and tequila.
Mexican salsas were produced using the mortar and pestle-like molcajete
There are a lot of flowers in indigenous food.
http://huerta.ojodeltiempo.com/flores-comestibles-mas-comunes/
Art
Poster!Bebidas
http://www.arqueomex.com/S2N3nBebidas114.html
Circuito Indigena
Caldo de Piedra (Stone Soup)Feria 2008: Celebration of Indigenous Food and Tamale Fair Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca – July 9-13
Elsewhere on the Web
Bebidas tradicionales de los pueblos indígenas de Méxicohttp://deliciasprehispanicas.blogspot.mx
http://cocinandocontodoslossentidos.blogspot.com/2008/02/gastronoma-prehispnica-de-mxico.html
http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/guajilote.htm
Scarlet runner bean
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/Gastronomia.Prehispanicawikipedia
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastronom%C3%ADa_prehisp%C3%A1nica_de_Mesoam%C3%A9ricaEmbedded Tweets